Artist Talk: Gary Red Oak O’Neil with J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Friday, October 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall

FREE!

Artist Gary Red Oak O’Neil will discuss his exhibition Excavations with curator J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, reflecting on his practice in relation to the history of the Wangunk (the Indigenous people of central Connecticut) and the power of art in cultivating belonging. Prior to the talk, there will be a screening of the senior thesis short film Piece by Piece by Eiley Doyle ’25, a work centered on O’Neil. A reception will follow in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery’s South Gallery Reading Room.

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West End String Quartet
Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
The West End String QuartetSarah Washburn and Marianne Vogel on violin, Wesleyan Chamber Music Ensemble Director John Biatowas on viola, and Anne Berry on cello—performs a program of Eduardo Alonso-Crespo’s String Quartet No. 2, “The Valley of the Menhires,” Caroline Shaw’s “Valencia,” and Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131.
Panel Discussion: Shifting Shelves—Libraries of the 19th-Century Islamic World
Friday, October 24, 2025 at 1:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 115, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, Connecticut
This panel discussion invites three case studies about specific libraries, collections, collectors, or books from the 19th-century Islamic world. The participants will begin to map the changing notions of libraries in the Islamic world and shift their scholarly focus to the libraries and the systems of knowledge that the exiled Islamic manuscripts left behind.
Artist Talk: Gary Red Oak O’Neil with J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
Friday, October 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
Artist Gary Red Oak O’Neil will discuss his exhibition Excavations with curator J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, reflecting on his practice in relation to the history of the Wangunk (the Indigenous people of central Connecticut) and the power of art in cultivating belonging. Prior to the talk, there will be a screening of the senior thesis short film Piece by Piece by Eiley Doyle ’25, a work centered on O’Neil. A reception will follow in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery’s South Gallery Reading Room.
New Haven Chinese Cultural Cooperative
Friday, October 24, 2025 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Established in 2023, the New Haven Chinese Cultural Cooperative will perform a concert of traditional Chinese and Taiwanese music.

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